An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1862)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · Oxford ; London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 156
e figures of animalsare of rather earlier date, but nothing like sculpture occurs be-fore the twelfth centur3\ The evidence of Gervase is distinctthat the chisel was not used in the glorious choir of Conradat Canterbury, consecrated in 1130, nor is any mark of thechisel to be found in the existing… … Malmesbury Abbey. 134. THE NORMAN STYLE. where they were withm easy reach; and this was evidentlya common custom, as may be seen very distinctly in the earlycapitals of the piUars in the vaulted substructure of the dor-mitory at ^Westminster, and in numberless instances both inEno-luud and France ;…
